Read up on your history. There have been conflicts and bombings long before Sept. 11th. The term "terrorist" became popular as a means of fear and control. Now everything is a terrorist attack. What about before Sept. 11th?

Sorry folks but the past is the past. And Obama won the popular and electoral vote. Perhaps you should examine your out of date ideas that are keeping the country in the last century. Evolution - grow and adapt.

"Radical Islam's" mission isn't very clear, but its goal isn't to "destroy America." Its mission is to convert every soul on the face of the planet, no matter the cost or method. That isn't even really AQ's mission either, though it is a means to an end. What they all long for is a caliphate that will plunge us back into the 10th century, which is about like me longing for the cowboy life of the 1870's.

The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria was not bombed, which is a miracle in itself. I think Mr. Odom has confused it with the dual 1998 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Al Queda was responsible for them.

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